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Reviewed September 01, 1990 12:00 AM

Critical Rating: AAA

Dany Brown, straight from the release last month of
Cadinot's fine Hand in the Fire, is back from France
and re-entrenched in the day-to-day life of pornography in
southern California. This may not be a big budget title, and
it may not endear him to any paparazzi, but it does give him
the advantage of working with Angel Rivera, one of the most
under-rated low-budget directors in gay video. Dany plays a
young man moving out of his parent's house and into a
somewhat drab apartment building in a latin neighborhood, his
cap set for landing an hispanic husband. He's fixated on the
idea, and has elaborate notions about Latins as these kind of
perpetually samba-ing coffee-skinned sex machines.

Dany hooks up right away with a hustler, and all in the
course of an afternoon finds disillusionment and true love in
the form of his new next door neighbor. In other words,
another sweet, low-key, relatively realistic story from
Rivera, who knows how to use a plot to make sex more
interesting, and make the sex integral to his story.

It seems weird casting Brown, a dark haired French boy who
could in a pinch pass for Hispanic himself, in the role of
the obsessive gavacho. The story hinges on his being an
outsider to the Latin world and being forced to shatter some
of his more racist fantasies. Perhaps casting a blond man
might have made more sense. Still, note the rest of the cast
is all young and Latin, which can be a real draw for many
customers.